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Thomas Leister
Personal blog · thomas-leister.desystemsweb
Thomas Leister's personal blog at thomas-leister.de covers systems and web. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its self-hosted mail server guidance. One commenter recommends its Debian mail server guide, and another discusses spam filtering with rspamd and Dovecot sieve.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
rspamd is as good as it gets, you can run it locally, you need to train the filters "of course", but you can do it incrementally - as mail pours in you put spam into the spam folder [0], and rspamd (via rmilter via postfix) puts a X-Spam-Flag header into the mail, so sieve (part of dovecot) sorts if out [1]. of course, there are a bunch of cloud/hosted/SaaS versions, usually they front-proxy your email servers via M…
Comment linking /en/mailserver-debian-stretch/
on “G Suite Horror Story”Submitted Creating my own small CDN for my Mastodon instance metalhead.club as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Even self hosting email is impossible now. You won't be able to send emails because nothing trusts you. That's not been my experience - I've successfully self-hosted email for nearly a decade now. Really nice guide here: https://thomas-leister.de/en/mailserver-debian-stretch/
Comment linking /en/mailserver-debian-stretch/
on “Inactive Google Account Policy”Submitted Speeding up global DNS resolution by avoiding CNAMES as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I dropped password resets on trashserver.net as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using the Sway Window Manager on Fedora as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build a Hugo static site automatically using Drone CI and Codeberg.org as a story · 1 points
HN discussion